October 2024: Women’s Giving Circle

• “Keep Your Fork – There’s Pi!”
• A brief exploration of pi.ai, and other Large Language Models.

August 2024: My Dinner with Claude

• URL: Presentation slides - Download
• Feel free to download and follow along!

Current AI Tools in 2024

Your best bet is to try a few of these tools and see what you think. They are listed in no particular order.

ChatGPT

• URL: https://openai.com/gpt
• Description: ChatGPT is the McDonalds of AI – bland and ubiquitous. I am moving towards Pi/Claude/Copilot for daily tasks.
• Pricing/Signup: Free account, pay per month, or pay per credit used (this last option involves using the platform interface)

Pi

• URL: https://pi.ai
• Description: Pi is one of the easiest to access for general “chat”, as it has easily selectable topics that generate a prompt for you, and you can start using it without signing up. The mobile app is easy to voice chat with.
• Pricing/Signup: Pi is free or subscription

Claude

• URL: https://claude.ai
• Description: Claude 3 is new, and worth exploring. It’s extremely powerful. It’s an easy choice for “summarize this PDF” type of tasks as the file upload is simple.
• Pricing/Signup: Claude offers a tiered pricing structure, with a basic free plan.

Poe

• URL: https://poe.com
• Description: Poe allows you to use models from OpenAI, Claude, and many others, all in the same interface. This is probably the best way to compare models directly.
• Pricing/Signup: Free use with account, subscription

Microsoft Copilot

• URL: https://copilot.microsoft.com/
• Description: Microsoft Copilot is now the branding for BingGPT. General chat AI interface with websearching enabled by default.
• Pricing/Signup: Works with your AD Microsoft account.

Dillinger

See Appendix 1 - Dillinger for PDFs for full details.

• URL: https://dillinger.io/ The benefit here is that any LLM can easily generate Markdown, which Dillinger can render as a HTML or PDF file.